Historic American Cigar Factory Offers 16,000 Square Feet of Office Space in Downtown Greenville

GREENVILLE, S.C. — More than 16,000 square feet of office space has hit the market inside the American Cigar Factory, a 123-year-old brick landmark just off Main Street, adding a rare slice of historic inventory to downtown Greenville’s tightening office market, according to a listing reported by the Post and Courier.

A landmark with deep industrial roots

Built around 1902 by the American Improvement Co. to house one of five Southern factories operated by the American Cigar Co., the four-story brick building at 25 E. Court St. was among the largest masonry structures in Greenville at the time of its construction. The factory employed several hundred workers, mostly women, at its peak before closing during the Great Depression, according to the building’s National Register of Historic Places nomination. It has been listed on the National Register since 1982.

Available space split across two floors

The available space is divided between the building’s third and fourth floors: roughly 5,700 square feet on a portion of the third floor and more than 10,000 square feet spanning nearly the entire fourth floor, excluding a mezzanine, according to the listing. The space retains the building’s exposed brick walls and open ceilings, features increasingly sought after by tenants looking to differentiate from newer, generic Class A product downtown.

Established tenant roster

Existing tenants in the building include Hitachi Solutions America, Holliday Ingram and The REI Lender LLC, according to the listing, underscoring the building’s track record as adaptive-reuse office space since a 1998 renovation converted it from vacant warehouse space into offices and restaurant space after sitting empty through the mid-1990s.

Fits a broader downtown trend

The listing lands amid continued strength in Greenville’s downtown office market, where vacancy has remained comparatively low by national standards and demand for character-driven, walkable office space near Main Street has held up even as some suburban product has softened, brokers have said. Adaptive-reuse buildings like the Cigar Factory — one of the few surviving turn-of-the-century industrial buildings still in office use downtown — continue to draw interest from tenants seeking an alternative to newly built towers.

The building sits about a block from the Hyatt Regency Greenville and within walking distance of the Peace Center and the old Greenville County Courthouse, placing it firmly within the city’s core central business district.